Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Indian Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad prof new director of IIT-BHU

Prof Rajeev Sangal of Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad joined as the new director of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Banaras Hindu University (BHU) on Tuesday.

Prof Sangal did his masters and research in Computer and Information Sciences from University of California, USA after completing BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT-Kanpur. He earlier served as director-cum-vice chancellor of IIIT-Hyderabad.

Prof Sangal is known for his work on development of software for converting and translating languages. He has developed eight softwares for the conversion of the matter from one language to other. He has also built 18 systems of machine translation out of which eight systems are released for public use. He has led a consortium of 12 institutions for building machine translation system for nine Indian languages.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/varanasi/Indian-Institute-of-Information-Technology-Hyderabad-prof-new-director-of-IIT-BHU/articleshow/19607869.cms

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